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Chicago examiner thursday thursday registered c 8 patent office price one cent inc f b x md vol xiv no 13 a m Chicago january 6 1916 gillett's insanity bared by ex-wife mrs bryant says she signed paper confessing disloyalty in attempt to assuage his in sane conviction of her guilt three more documents exhibited but are read only by judge and attorneys and are ex cluded from court records one of the most remarkable pleas â€¢ ever offered in court will be made to-day by attorney ed ward w everett in an attempt to gain for mrs harold j bryant abso lute control of her two children in the wake of mrs bryant's weary re ital yesterday to judg smith pub licly baring the most intimate details of her married life with her formei husband charles w gillett the ap peal of the attorney will come as the final touch gillett s past life to be reviewed there will be no attempt at the dramatic tt will fca a cold dispas sionate argument of psychology in which every phase of gillett past along his self-admltt career of gayety will be dissected his subse quent claim of reformation analyzed and his past life again relentlessly reriewed the argument of attorney everett will be directed flatly at the docu n_ent introduced in evidence admit tedly signed by mrs bryant and con fessing alleged acts of unfaithfulness the explanation offered in this con nection will be that she signed the statement falsely after she had been driven to it by the incessant accu sations made by her former husband and because she believed that he had become insane on that subject confession made for psychological effect it will be argued that the con fession was made by her merely for the psychological effect she believed it would have on his mind in corroboration of the plea of ratiocination the expert opinion of dr archibald church alienist and specialist in mental and nervous dis eases will be used dr church tes tified on tuesday that his expert opinion of gillett condition six years ago was that he was suffering from alcoholic mania the examination of mrs bryant on the witness stand yesterday was con ducted by attorney everett to con form with his proposed argument alcoholic delusions to be alleged in questioning her concerning the alleged continuous accusations of un chastity made by gillett strong em phasis was laid on the fact that the clubman was suffering from alcoholic delusions and illusions this will play a prominent part in the argument which will be corre lated with the statement of the alien ist in reply to a hypothetical ques tion that was intended to attack gil lett's motive for forswearing liquor he said that a man suffering from alcoholic mania with a suitable oh ject in view might exercise sufficient self-control to enable him to accom plish that object when he attained that object he said his mind might give away and he might resume the use of alcohol mrs bryant was visibly fagged as Â«. result of the ordeal he has gone through since the beginning of the fight begun by her divorced husband a week ago to regain possession of the children it was evident from tjhfe fe of questioning begun by attor my everett that the fight had nar fftwed down to an explanation of the bystery note and the other docu lente that had been exhibited i her story w\as a recital of the later , . twenty drowned and 49 missing as steamer sinks in the ohio river only seven known to be saved of the 76 persons who were aboard the kanawha by international news service parkersburg w va jan 5 â€” at least a score of persons are be lieved to have been drowned when the pittsburgh & charleston packet kanawha struck a lock pier at dam no 19 in the ohio river nine miles below this city at 7:30 o'clock to night a half mile below where the lock was struck the boat struck a sand bar and in a few minutes had turned completely over the passengers and crew were thrown into the water those who escaped clung to pieces of wreckage and were rescued by per sons living in the vicinity of the crew of forty and the pas senger list of thirty-six only seven had been accounted for at a late hour to-night first mate miller burdette of gal lipolis ohio had just left his watch when he heard the pilot shouting or ders he hurried to the deck and escaped by clinging to the cabin the steamer sank in three minutes captain brady berry of williams town w va and fred hoyt of mar ietta ohio of the crew were saved parents are warned against defectives parents should interview their pro spective sons-in-law on the condition of their health as well as the size of their bank rolls according to dr irvin s koll last night dr koll who was speaking before the chicagro medical society asserted that much of the world's woe was due to the marriage of defectives a vigorous verbal battle was waged between dr l w bremerman and dr rachael yarros on segregation tbre former spok7e in behalf of segre gation on the theory that the social evil could not be stamped out dr yarros cited the segregated districts of european cities which she de clared were disease hotbeds husband and wife die on health trip journeying from their south caro lina home to Chicago in the hope of restoring their health guinvier ulys ses des portes sixty-five years old and his wife who was sixty died within a few hours of each other tuesday des portes a wealthy mer chant of winnsboro s c was found dead in a chair at the bernarr mac fadden healthatorium forty-second street and . grand boulevard his wife was hurried to st luke's hos pital where she died the latter was a sister of mrs j h kaufman 3928 grand boulevard first g.o.p delegates to Chicago chosen by international news service centralia 111 jan s the 1916 campaign was formally launched in the twenty-third congressional dis trict at a republican conference here this afternoon senator sherman was indorsed for president and louis l emerson of mount vernon for secre tary of state of Illinois judge a d rodenburg of ce ntralia and a h jones of robinson were chosen dele gates to the Chicago convention and john r snook of altamont and e b brooks of newton alternates har mony prevailed Chicago bandits fail to appreciate joke mr stockingham â€” mr hartman stockingham of 235 west schiller street â€” was apprised of the fact last night that Chicago highwaymen are not humorists mr stockingham was relieved of his watch and 15 by two robbers as a joke he called their attention to the fact that they had overlooked a baggage check for his trunks at the northwestern depot one of the robbers knocked two of mr stockingham's teeth out with the butt of his revolver fire menaces relics in state building washington jan 6 â€” fire to night caused 2,000 damage in the basement of the state war and navy building stories of incendiarism were circulated but officials said spontaneous combustion started the blaze priceless papers including the orig inal copies of the declaration of in dependence and the constitution are stored in the building dolton bank figuring in ledowsky's death shut state examiner closes institution which distiller who ended life said carried forged papers silent run for six months de pletes available resources early reopening is promised the doors of the dolton state bank were closed tuesday by state bank examiner daniel v harkin a prelim inary examination having shown the institution's condition precarious according to officials of the bank the deposits amount to about 100,000 a silent run continuing for the last six months and depleting the bank's available resources brought the im mediate action that the failure of the bank is due largely to the possession of forged warehouse receipts of the fox river distilling company whose president charles ledowsky committed suicide january 20 1915 on a michigan cen tral train at kensington leaving a statement confessing the forgery of 300,000 worth of the receipts is the belief of depositors and residents of the town straus a former director w f proper a prominent attor ney in dolton and a director of the bank admitted yesterday the whisky hxuise receipts had something to do with the failure other official's either maintained silence when the receipts were mentioned or denied the bank ever had possessed any of them the rumor among dolton business men is that benjamin f straus who was mentioned fn ledowsky's confes sion before his death as the only per son who knew of his default and who discounted ledowsky's forged re ceipts was responsible for the bank's possession of the worthless paper straus was formerly a director of the bank and a few days after the suicide of ledowsky the rumor that the bank possessed anywhere from 6,000 to 30,000 worth of the forged paper caused a near-panic in dolton bank officials yesterday declined to discuss the connection of mr straus with the bank the run which ended in the bank's closing its doors began shortly after the president frank lund resigned and the board of directors refused to accept the resignation disregarding vote of the board mr lund withdre'w from the bank and although still nominally its president has refused to interest himself in its aeffairs since he expressed surprise yesterday when told the state examiner had closed its doors acting president silent simon p schoon vice president and acting president refused to talk last night as to the failure of the bank or its future lorenz f kipley the cashier gave out the following statement the bank is closed for a few days because some of our loans were elow of realization the hard times the scarcity of money and the general debility of trade are the chief causes for our temporary difficulty we are reorganizing and some of the biggest bankers in Chicago are coming in as directors there has been some in ternal trouble we will reopen with in two or three days and will pay every creditor dollar for dollar the nature of the internal trouble was kept a eecret by mr kipley as v s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” fair and somewhat colder thursday fri day fair with rising temperature moderate northwest winds becoming variable thursday night temperature feor twenty-four hours ending at 7 jx no for twenty-four hours ending at 3 a n highest 53 lowest 9 mean 31 for twenty-four hours ending a.l 7 p m . highest 63 l"west is mean 36 normal temperature for the day 25 excels ot temperature since january 1 52 degrees precipitation for twenty-four hour trace _____ o precipitation since janoar 1 ju inch relative humidity 7 a m 80 2 p m 90 t p m 41 barometric pressure reduced to sea lerel 7 a m 28 ss ; 7 p m 30.07 sunrise to day 7:18 sunset 4:54 moon set 6:37 p m thursday amjdeto west-re ututics oo p_f is why the idea women's poker game is invaded by detectives but the impudent police retire abashed when players promise to quit detectives made a raid on a quiet little poker game in which six women were indulging in the apartment of mrs helen m fay at 4453 prairie av enue last night one woman had just raised the pot 25 cents on a bluff another woman who held four kings and an ace kicker had called then the detectives walked in little shrieks of surprise ran around the table as the police stood in the doorway and surveyed the cul prits solemnly one woman began to cry another attempted to duck un der the table the woman with the four kings grabbed up her winnings and laughed nervously mrs fay spoke why lieutenant gurney at the fiftieth street station told me i might play a quiet little game like this she said indignantly we're just playing to see who pays for the lunch neighbors have complained the game isn't as quiet as it might be the detectives replied the police retired when the women promised they would quit those present gave their names as mrs ag nes calhoun 6332 vernon avenue mrs emma wilson mrs grace brown mrs mary maloney and mrs william ford mercury drops 44 deg warmer today the mercury in the official ther mometer of the weather bureau dropped 44 degrees during the cold wave that swept over Chicago ye terday from the northwest misery is at its height in the slums hun dreds of homeless men crowded at the doors of the municipal lodging house last night Chicago tempera ture was 9 degrees above zero last night relief is promised by the weather bureau by to-morrow fear of bullet halts death plan bent on committing suicide but at the same time fearing a shot from a policeman's revolver adam uovitz was saved from drowning yesterday when he leaped into the calumet river at east one hundred and tenth street policeman patrick mc laughlin and hugh byrnes threw a rope to him but he refused to grab it until one of the policemen threat ened to shoot him illness of kaiser slight says berlin london jan 5 a1l direct ad vices from berlin have characterized the illness of the german emperor as slight the only reports intimating his condition is serious have come from paris rome copenhagen and similar places none of these has given definite sources of information in most cases the statements have been frankly given as merely rumors amy leslie is sued for decree on coast san francisco jan 6 â€” frank h buck formerly ' of Chicago has sued lillie west buck of Chicago for divorce mrs buck is a well known dramatic critic who writes under the name of amy leslie the couple were married about fourteen years st luke's robbery inside job confession ralph w rollman driver of yellow taxicab tells of taking bandits to and from hospital gives their names to police dragnet is thrown out over city in effort to catch men who got 3,500 owner of livery line upholds the chauffeur a confession of complicity in the 3,500 robbery at st luke's hospital last monday made by a yellow taxi cab chauffeur uncovered the full de tails of the crime last night as with similar crimes in Chicago it had its inception in associations formed in pool halls â€” in this instance one in the vicinity of the hospital which two years itgo was the rendez vous of teddy webb and his band of automobile bandits chauffeur gives names ralph w rollman is the name of the chauffeur who confesses to hav ing had a part in the robbery his statement was obtained after chief of detectives hunt had uncovered evi dence yesterday showing that roll man's statements made immediately after the robbers had escaped from the scene of the holdup in his auto mobile were not true when taken to the state's attor ney's office rollman admitted both his connection with the crime and im plicated three other men those whom he named are charles searles an employe in the engine room of the hospital sidney mcguire who seized 3,481 from miss nellie tobin cashier at the hospital according to rollman and rushed to rollman's waiting au tomobile paul fox who held the persons near the cashier's window at bay with a revolver as mcguire seized the mon ey according to the chauffeur plot laid in restaurant the details of the robbery were ar ranged in the restaurant of walter hussey 73 east sixteenth street last sunday night according to rollman's confession which was given in the presence of chief of detectives hunt and assistant state's attorneys barn hardt and fleming searles who was familiar with the routine of the hospital outlined his plan for the robbery on the following day the scheme was agreed to by mcguire and fox and rollman was taken into their confidence dragnet for robbers as a result of the confession chief of edtectives hunt cast a dragnet around pool halls and yuestionable restaurants throughout the city last night in an attempt to find the three men who were named as participating in the robbery it was denied at the state's attor ney's oflice thot any of the men with the exception of rollman had been taken in custody when informed by captain hunt of relief ship hits a mine london jan 5 â€” a reuter dis patch from rotterdam says that the dutch steamship^leto under charter by the american commission for re litf in belgium struck a mine but is continuing her voyage germany hints war upon greece because of arrest of consuls international news service rome jan 5 â€” germany holds that greece is responsible for the arrest of the german austrian turkish and bul garian consuls at saloniki the berlin government de mands immediate reparation and the release of the consuls and their restoration to their residences which in the future shall be guarded by greek troops in case compliance with her demands should be impossible owing to the opposition of the french and british germany the berlin government represents would be justified in declar ing war on greece whose neutrality is only nominal still even though germany and her allies should still be unwilling to force greece to abandon her neutrality they feel they would be compelled to invade greek territory with the object of driving out the french and british i have reason to believe that greece's reply will consist of an apologetic statement disclaiming the responsibility for the arrest of the consuls meanwhile germany on the pre text of greece's non-compliance to her demands might allow the bulgarians and turks to cross the greek frontier iri any case however an attack on saloniki is not immi nent as the austro-germans are unable to aid the turks and bulgarians and the latter are unwilling to face unaided the anglo-french forces numbers of austrian troops have been withdrawn from serbia and rushed to the russian front this explains the in ability of the austro-germans to attack saloniki at this time u.s against grey's war court plan washington understood to be op posed to acting as tribunal on treatment of officers washington jan 5 â€” it was au thoritatively stated to-night that the united states government would not agree to the suggestion by sir ed ward grey to germany that a tri bunal of american naval officers in vestigate belligerent charges and counter charges of inhumane con duct by naval officers london jan 5 â€” the belief is ex pressed in official quarters here that the next step in the baralong con troversy will be a reprisal by ger many which is expected to take the form of the shooting of a number of english officers and men prisoners equaling the number of german sub marine officers and men lost when the submarine was sunk by the bara long germany wont agree there is little hope expressed that germany will meet sir edward grey's suggestion for a neutral naval board to consider the baralong case in conjunction with the charges made against german submarines in the case of the steamer reul it is alleged that the crew of the sub marine fired shrapnel at the crew of the steamer in their boats killing one man and wounding eight others the german note declares there is no doubt that commander macÃŸride of the baralong gave his crew the command not to ma ke prisoners certain helpless unarmed german seamen but to kill them in a cowardly manner also that his crew obeyed the order and thus shared the guilt for murder reprisals threatened the german government informs the british government of this ter rible deed and takes it for granted that the latter when they have ex amined the facts in the case and the affidavits will immediately take pro ceedings for murder against the commander of the baralong and the crew concerned in the murder and will punish them according to the laws of war they await in a very short time a statement from tho british govern ment that they have instituted pro ceedings for the expiation of this shocking incident should they be disappointed in this expectation they would consider themselves obliged to take serious decisions as to retribution for the unpunished crime draft rill stirs fight in commons irish leader opens opposition despite ireland's exemption as asquith submits conscription london jan sâ€”opposition5 â€” opposition so violent as to menace seriously the passage of the newly completed brit ish conscription bill developed in the house of commons this evening when john redmond declared the irish party would not support the govern ment's bill for compulsory military service even though premier as quith had exempted ireland in the bill to win such support the same position taken by sir john simon who resigned from the cabinet yesterday because of oppo sition to the bill further complicat ed the case and to-night the situ ation is strained to the breaking point the situation of the government and the compulsory service bill was swiftly altered by to-day's action and it is probable if not certain that england will be plunged into a gen eral election in the next few weeks unnecessary says redmond the bill is unnecessary to win the war said the irish leader if the party were convinced that the pas sage of the bill was necessary to end the war their attitude would be en tirely different but nothing has yet been said which would change my hostility to conscription other members of the cabinet share my views on the conscription question said sir john simon in explaining his opposition to the bill compulsory service can only come with general consent of the people of great britain that of course is impossible nearly 6,000,000 men have enlisted voluntarily nearly 3,000,000 enlisted before the derby scheme was pro posed three million have enlisted since that time it is plain there fore that the government's bill is unnecessary premier's position at stake during the discussion that followed the premier's address andrew bonar law leader of the conservative party and colonial secretary in the coali tion cabinet remarked significantly the premier is convinced that compulsion is a matter of national necessity and if the house decides that no national necessity exists then the house must make up its mind that the war will have to be finished without the assistance of the present premier john dillon m p in supporting mr redmond's statement that the nationalist party would oppose the compulsion bill made a sensational attack upon the war office we have been asked to adopt con scription blindfold he said be cause the premier was trapped into embargo on arms is asked in senate shipment of munitions makes u s ally of enemies of germany says works of california ir debate held despite wilson if sale was stopped we would be actively for kaiser says lodge in heated reply in which he is supported by reedi by international news service washington jan s.â€”dis regarding the urgent appeal of the president to refrain from public discussion of sub marine warfare and the deaths of americaji citizens pending negotist tions between this country and aus tria the senate this afternoon en gaged in its most sensational debate since the outbreak of the european war senator works of california charged that the government by reason of its failure to keep ameri can citizens off belligerent ships was r-orally guilty of murder h j made a strong appeal for an en bargo on the exportation of arms and ammunitions to the allies says embargo would make u s ally of germany senator lodge and others argued that such action at the present time would be unneutral and would mal the united states practically thel ally of germany senator hitch cock advocated a strict embargo and declared that in not doing what all the north sea countries havs done this country is unneutral and favoring the allies senator reed of missouri demov crat defended the sale of munition and attributed much of the prosper ity of the country to-day to the was trade this statement caused sena tor works to retort that the whol trouble was that the american peas pie thought more of the dollar they are making out of the was than of the human lives being de stroyed stone fails in effort to stop discussion the debate was significant la tb.4 sentiment developed in favor of ac tion to prohibit the exportation of munitions and to make it unlawful for american citizens to travel oil belligerent ships senator stone chairman of th foreign relations committee mad several unsuccessful attempts tdf stop the discussion he suggested later however that the debate was not without value as it afforded something in the way of an index to the sentiment of the senate n questions that would come up for consideration later jones advocate of peace precipitates the debate senator jones of washington a strong advocate of peace precipi tated the debate he had the clerk _~ read an editorial in a local morning fl newspaper which took the position h that americans could help their country by keeping off vessels be longing to belligerents senator jones said americans who persisted in traveling on ships belonging to belligerents displayed a lack of patriotism this routed the ire of senator nelson the debate proceeded as follows mr nelson â€” does the senator in tend to imply that consul mcneely traveling on that ship was unpa triotic and not a good america citizen mr jones â€” i think consul mo neely had better hunted up a nei"n tral ship as a representative of th_t government rather than getting on a belligerent ship mr owen â€” may i ventur te augc-lt i 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Chicago examiner thursday thursday registered c 8 patent office price one cent inc f b x md vol xiv no 13 a m Chicago january 6 1916 gillett's insanity bared by ex-wife mrs bryant says she signed paper confessing disloyalty in attempt to assuage his in sane conviction of her guilt three more documents exhibited but are read only by judge and attorneys and are ex cluded from court records one of the most remarkable pleas â€¢ ever offered in court will be made to-day by attorney ed ward w everett in an attempt to gain for mrs harold j bryant abso lute control of her two children in the wake of mrs bryant's weary re ital yesterday to judg smith pub licly baring the most intimate details of her married life with her formei husband charles w gillett the ap peal of the attorney will come as the final touch gillett s past life to be reviewed there will be no attempt at the dramatic tt will fca a cold dispas sionate argument of psychology in which every phase of gillett past along his self-admltt career of gayety will be dissected his subse quent claim of reformation analyzed and his past life again relentlessly reriewed the argument of attorney everett will be directed flatly at the docu n_ent introduced in evidence admit tedly signed by mrs bryant and con fessing alleged acts of unfaithfulness the explanation offered in this con nection will be that she signed the statement falsely after she had been driven to it by the incessant accu sations made by her former husband and because she believed that he had become insane on that subject confession made for psychological effect it will be argued that the con fession was made by her merely for the psychological effect she believed it would have on his mind in corroboration of the plea of ratiocination the expert opinion of dr archibald church alienist and specialist in mental and nervous dis eases will be used dr church tes tified on tuesday that his expert opinion of gillett condition six years ago was that he was suffering from alcoholic mania the examination of mrs bryant on the witness stand yesterday was con ducted by attorney everett to con form with his proposed argument alcoholic delusions to be alleged in questioning her concerning the alleged continuous accusations of un chastity made by gillett strong em phasis was laid on the fact that the clubman was suffering from alcoholic delusions and illusions this will play a prominent part in the argument which will be corre lated with the statement of the alien ist in reply to a hypothetical ques tion that was intended to attack gil lett's motive for forswearing liquor he said that a man suffering from alcoholic mania with a suitable oh ject in view might exercise sufficient self-control to enable him to accom plish that object when he attained that object he said his mind might give away and he might resume the use of alcohol mrs bryant was visibly fagged as Â«. result of the ordeal he has gone through since the beginning of the fight begun by her divorced husband a week ago to regain possession of the children it was evident from tjhfe fe of questioning begun by attor my everett that the fight had nar fftwed down to an explanation of the bystery note and the other docu lente that had been exhibited i her story w\as a recital of the later , . twenty drowned and 49 missing as steamer sinks in the ohio river only seven known to be saved of the 76 persons who were aboard the kanawha by international news service parkersburg w va jan 5 â€” at least a score of persons are be lieved to have been drowned when the pittsburgh & charleston packet kanawha struck a lock pier at dam no 19 in the ohio river nine miles below this city at 7:30 o'clock to night a half mile below where the lock was struck the boat struck a sand bar and in a few minutes had turned completely over the passengers and crew were thrown into the water those who escaped clung to pieces of wreckage and were rescued by per sons living in the vicinity of the crew of forty and the pas senger list of thirty-six only seven had been accounted for at a late hour to-night first mate miller burdette of gal lipolis ohio had just left his watch when he heard the pilot shouting or ders he hurried to the deck and escaped by clinging to the cabin the steamer sank in three minutes captain brady berry of williams town w va and fred hoyt of mar ietta ohio of the crew were saved parents are warned against defectives parents should interview their pro spective sons-in-law on the condition of their health as well as the size of their bank rolls according to dr irvin s koll last night dr koll who was speaking before the chicagro medical society asserted that much of the world's woe was due to the marriage of defectives a vigorous verbal battle was waged between dr l w bremerman and dr rachael yarros on segregation tbre former spok7e in behalf of segre gation on the theory that the social evil could not be stamped out dr yarros cited the segregated districts of european cities which she de clared were disease hotbeds husband and wife die on health trip journeying from their south caro lina home to Chicago in the hope of restoring their health guinvier ulys ses des portes sixty-five years old and his wife who was sixty died within a few hours of each other tuesday des portes a wealthy mer chant of winnsboro s c was found dead in a chair at the bernarr mac fadden healthatorium forty-second street and . grand boulevard his wife was hurried to st luke's hos pital where she died the latter was a sister of mrs j h kaufman 3928 grand boulevard first g.o.p delegates to Chicago chosen by international news service centralia 111 jan s the 1916 campaign was formally launched in the twenty-third congressional dis trict at a republican conference here this afternoon senator sherman was indorsed for president and louis l emerson of mount vernon for secre tary of state of Illinois judge a d rodenburg of ce ntralia and a h jones of robinson were chosen dele gates to the Chicago convention and john r snook of altamont and e b brooks of newton alternates har mony prevailed Chicago bandits fail to appreciate joke mr stockingham â€” mr hartman stockingham of 235 west schiller street â€” was apprised of the fact last night that Chicago highwaymen are not humorists mr stockingham was relieved of his watch and 15 by two robbers as a joke he called their attention to the fact that they had overlooked a baggage check for his trunks at the northwestern depot one of the robbers knocked two of mr stockingham's teeth out with the butt of his revolver fire menaces relics in state building washington jan 6 â€” fire to night caused 2,000 damage in the basement of the state war and navy building stories of incendiarism were circulated but officials said spontaneous combustion started the blaze priceless papers including the orig inal copies of the declaration of in dependence and the constitution are stored in the building dolton bank figuring in ledowsky's death shut state examiner closes institution which distiller who ended life said carried forged papers silent run for six months de pletes available resources early reopening is promised the doors of the dolton state bank were closed tuesday by state bank examiner daniel v harkin a prelim inary examination having shown the institution's condition precarious according to officials of the bank the deposits amount to about 100,000 a silent run continuing for the last six months and depleting the bank's available resources brought the im mediate action that the failure of the bank is due largely to the possession of forged warehouse receipts of the fox river distilling company whose president charles ledowsky committed suicide january 20 1915 on a michigan cen tral train at kensington leaving a statement confessing the forgery of 300,000 worth of the receipts is the belief of depositors and residents of the town straus a former director w f proper a prominent attor ney in dolton and a director of the bank admitted yesterday the whisky hxuise receipts had something to do with the failure other official's either maintained silence when the receipts were mentioned or denied the bank ever had possessed any of them the rumor among dolton business men is that benjamin f straus who was mentioned fn ledowsky's confes sion before his death as the only per son who knew of his default and who discounted ledowsky's forged re ceipts was responsible for the bank's possession of the worthless paper straus was formerly a director of the bank and a few days after the suicide of ledowsky the rumor that the bank possessed anywhere from 6,000 to 30,000 worth of the forged paper caused a near-panic in dolton bank officials yesterday declined to discuss the connection of mr straus with the bank the run which ended in the bank's closing its doors began shortly after the president frank lund resigned and the board of directors refused to accept the resignation disregarding vote of the board mr lund withdre'w from the bank and although still nominally its president has refused to interest himself in its aeffairs since he expressed surprise yesterday when told the state examiner had closed its doors acting president silent simon p schoon vice president and acting president refused to talk last night as to the failure of the bank or its future lorenz f kipley the cashier gave out the following statement the bank is closed for a few days because some of our loans were elow of realization the hard times the scarcity of money and the general debility of trade are the chief causes for our temporary difficulty we are reorganizing and some of the biggest bankers in Chicago are coming in as directors there has been some in ternal trouble we will reopen with in two or three days and will pay every creditor dollar for dollar the nature of the internal trouble was kept a eecret by mr kipley as v s weather forecast Chicago and vicinity â€” fair and somewhat colder thursday fri day fair with rising temperature moderate northwest winds becoming variable thursday night temperature feor twenty-four hours ending at 7 jx no for twenty-four hours ending at 3 a n highest 53 lowest 9 mean 31 for twenty-four hours ending a.l 7 p m . highest 63 l"west is mean 36 normal temperature for the day 25 excels ot temperature since january 1 52 degrees precipitation for twenty-four hour trace _____ o precipitation since janoar 1 ju inch relative humidity 7 a m 80 2 p m 90 t p m 41 barometric pressure reduced to sea lerel 7 a m 28 ss ; 7 p m 30.07 sunrise to day 7:18 sunset 4:54 moon set 6:37 p m thursday amjdeto west-re ututics oo p_f is why the idea women's poker game is invaded by detectives but the impudent police retire abashed when players promise to quit detectives made a raid on a quiet little poker game in which six women were indulging in the apartment of mrs helen m fay at 4453 prairie av enue last night one woman had just raised the pot 25 cents on a bluff another woman who held four kings and an ace kicker had called then the detectives walked in little shrieks of surprise ran around the table as the police stood in the doorway and surveyed the cul prits solemnly one woman began to cry another attempted to duck un der the table the woman with the four kings grabbed up her winnings and laughed nervously mrs fay spoke why lieutenant gurney at the fiftieth street station told me i might play a quiet little game like this she said indignantly we're just playing to see who pays for the lunch neighbors have complained the game isn't as quiet as it might be the detectives replied the police retired when the women promised they would quit those present gave their names as mrs ag nes calhoun 6332 vernon avenue mrs emma wilson mrs grace brown mrs mary maloney and mrs william ford mercury drops 44 deg warmer today the mercury in the official ther mometer of the weather bureau dropped 44 degrees during the cold wave that swept over Chicago ye terday from the northwest misery is at its height in the slums hun dreds of homeless men crowded at the doors of the municipal lodging house last night Chicago tempera ture was 9 degrees above zero last night relief is promised by the weather bureau by to-morrow fear of bullet halts death plan bent on committing suicide but at the same time fearing a shot from a policeman's revolver adam uovitz was saved from drowning yesterday when he leaped into the calumet river at east one hundred and tenth street policeman patrick mc laughlin and hugh byrnes threw a rope to him but he refused to grab it until one of the policemen threat ened to shoot him illness of kaiser slight says berlin london jan 5 a1l direct ad vices from berlin have characterized the illness of the german emperor as slight the only reports intimating his condition is serious have come from paris rome copenhagen and similar places none of these has given definite sources of information in most cases the statements have been frankly given as merely rumors amy leslie is sued for decree on coast san francisco jan 6 â€” frank h buck formerly ' of Chicago has sued lillie west buck of Chicago for divorce mrs buck is a well known dramatic critic who writes under the name of amy leslie the couple were married about fourteen years st luke's robbery inside job confession ralph w rollman driver of yellow taxicab tells of taking bandits to and from hospital gives their names to police dragnet is thrown out over city in effort to catch men who got 3,500 owner of livery line upholds the chauffeur a confession of complicity in the 3,500 robbery at st luke's hospital last monday made by a yellow taxi cab chauffeur uncovered the full de tails of the crime last night as with similar crimes in Chicago it had its inception in associations formed in pool halls â€” in this instance one in the vicinity of the hospital which two years itgo was the rendez vous of teddy webb and his band of automobile bandits chauffeur gives names ralph w rollman is the name of the chauffeur who confesses to hav ing had a part in the robbery his statement was obtained after chief of detectives hunt had uncovered evi dence yesterday showing that roll man's statements made immediately after the robbers had escaped from the scene of the holdup in his auto mobile were not true when taken to the state's attor ney's office rollman admitted both his connection with the crime and im plicated three other men those whom he named are charles searles an employe in the engine room of the hospital sidney mcguire who seized 3,481 from miss nellie tobin cashier at the hospital according to rollman and rushed to rollman's waiting au tomobile paul fox who held the persons near the cashier's window at bay with a revolver as mcguire seized the mon ey according to the chauffeur plot laid in restaurant the details of the robbery were ar ranged in the restaurant of walter hussey 73 east sixteenth street last sunday night according to rollman's confession which was given in the presence of chief of detectives hunt and assistant state's attorneys barn hardt and fleming searles who was familiar with the routine of the hospital outlined his plan for the robbery on the following day the scheme was agreed to by mcguire and fox and rollman was taken into their confidence dragnet for robbers as a result of the confession chief of edtectives hunt cast a dragnet around pool halls and yuestionable restaurants throughout the city last night in an attempt to find the three men who were named as participating in the robbery it was denied at the state's attor ney's oflice thot any of the men with the exception of rollman had been taken in custody when informed by captain hunt of relief ship hits a mine london jan 5 â€” a reuter dis patch from rotterdam says that the dutch steamship^leto under charter by the american commission for re litf in belgium struck a mine but is continuing her voyage germany hints war upon greece because of arrest of consuls international news service rome jan 5 â€” germany holds that greece is responsible for the arrest of the german austrian turkish and bul garian consuls at saloniki the berlin government de mands immediate reparation and the release of the consuls and their restoration to their residences which in the future shall be guarded by greek troops in case compliance with her demands should be impossible owing to the opposition of the french and british germany the berlin government represents would be justified in declar ing war on greece whose neutrality is only nominal still even though germany and her allies should still be unwilling to force greece to abandon her neutrality they feel they would be compelled to invade greek territory with the object of driving out the french and british i have reason to believe that greece's reply will consist of an apologetic statement disclaiming the responsibility for the arrest of the consuls meanwhile germany on the pre text of greece's non-compliance to her demands might allow the bulgarians and turks to cross the greek frontier iri any case however an attack on saloniki is not immi nent as the austro-germans are unable to aid the turks and bulgarians and the latter are unwilling to face unaided the anglo-french forces numbers of austrian troops have been withdrawn from serbia and rushed to the russian front this explains the in ability of the austro-germans to attack saloniki at this time u.s against grey's war court plan washington understood to be op posed to acting as tribunal on treatment of officers washington jan 5 â€” it was au thoritatively stated to-night that the united states government would not agree to the suggestion by sir ed ward grey to germany that a tri bunal of american naval officers in vestigate belligerent charges and counter charges of inhumane con duct by naval officers london jan 5 â€” the belief is ex pressed in official quarters here that the next step in the baralong con troversy will be a reprisal by ger many which is expected to take the form of the shooting of a number of english officers and men prisoners equaling the number of german sub marine officers and men lost when the submarine was sunk by the bara long germany wont agree there is little hope expressed that germany will meet sir edward grey's suggestion for a neutral naval board to consider the baralong case in conjunction with the charges made against german submarines in the case of the steamer reul it is alleged that the crew of the sub marine fired shrapnel at the crew of the steamer in their boats killing one man and wounding eight others the german note declares there is no doubt that commander macÃŸride of the baralong gave his crew the command not to ma ke prisoners certain helpless unarmed german seamen but to kill them in a cowardly manner also that his crew obeyed the order and thus shared the guilt for murder reprisals threatened the german government informs the british government of this ter rible deed and takes it for granted that the latter when they have ex amined the facts in the case and the affidavits will immediately take pro ceedings for murder against the commander of the baralong and the crew concerned in the murder and will punish them according to the laws of war they await in a very short time a statement from tho british govern ment that they have instituted pro ceedings for the expiation of this shocking incident should they be disappointed in this expectation they would consider themselves obliged to take serious decisions as to retribution for the unpunished crime draft rill stirs fight in commons irish leader opens opposition despite ireland's exemption as asquith submits conscription london jan sâ€”opposition5 â€” opposition so violent as to menace seriously the passage of the newly completed brit ish conscription bill developed in the house of commons this evening when john redmond declared the irish party would not support the govern ment's bill for compulsory military service even though premier as quith had exempted ireland in the bill to win such support the same position taken by sir john simon who resigned from the cabinet yesterday because of oppo sition to the bill further complicat ed the case and to-night the situ ation is strained to the breaking point the situation of the government and the compulsory service bill was swiftly altered by to-day's action and it is probable if not certain that england will be plunged into a gen eral election in the next few weeks unnecessary says redmond the bill is unnecessary to win the war said the irish leader if the party were convinced that the pas sage of the bill was necessary to end the war their attitude would be en tirely different but nothing has yet been said which would change my hostility to conscription other members of the cabinet share my views on the conscription question said sir john simon in explaining his opposition to the bill compulsory service can only come with general consent of the people of great britain that of course is impossible nearly 6,000,000 men have enlisted voluntarily nearly 3,000,000 enlisted before the derby scheme was pro posed three million have enlisted since that time it is plain there fore that the government's bill is unnecessary premier's position at stake during the discussion that followed the premier's address andrew bonar law leader of the conservative party and colonial secretary in the coali tion cabinet remarked significantly the premier is convinced that compulsion is a matter of national necessity and if the house decides that no national necessity exists then the house must make up its mind that the war will have to be finished without the assistance of the present premier john dillon m p in supporting mr redmond's statement that the nationalist party would oppose the compulsion bill made a sensational attack upon the war office we have been asked to adopt con scription blindfold he said be cause the premier was trapped into embargo on arms is asked in senate shipment of munitions makes u s ally of enemies of germany says works of california ir debate held despite wilson if sale was stopped we would be actively for kaiser says lodge in heated reply in which he is supported by reedi by international news service washington jan s.â€”dis regarding the urgent appeal of the president to refrain from public discussion of sub marine warfare and the deaths of americaji citizens pending negotist tions between this country and aus tria the senate this afternoon en gaged in its most sensational debate since the outbreak of the european war senator works of california charged that the government by reason of its failure to keep ameri can citizens off belligerent ships was r-orally guilty of murder h j made a strong appeal for an en bargo on the exportation of arms and ammunitions to the allies says embargo would make u s ally of germany senator lodge and others argued that such action at the present time would be unneutral and would mal the united states practically thel ally of germany senator hitch cock advocated a strict embargo and declared that in not doing what all the north sea countries havs done this country is unneutral and favoring the allies senator reed of missouri demov crat defended the sale of munition and attributed much of the prosper ity of the country to-day to the was trade this statement caused sena tor works to retort that the whol trouble was that the american peas pie thought more of the dollar they are making out of the was than of the human lives being de stroyed stone fails in effort to stop discussion the debate was significant la tb.4 sentiment developed in favor of ac tion to prohibit the exportation of munitions and to make it unlawful for american citizens to travel oil belligerent ships senator stone chairman of th foreign relations committee mad several unsuccessful attempts tdf stop the discussion he suggested later however that the debate was not without value as it afforded something in the way of an index to the sentiment of the senate n questions that would come up for consideration later jones advocate of peace precipitates the debate senator jones of washington a strong advocate of peace precipi tated the debate he had the clerk _~ read an editorial in a local morning fl newspaper which took the position h that americans could help their country by keeping off vessels be longing to belligerents senator jones said americans who persisted in traveling on ships belonging to belligerents displayed a lack of patriotism this routed the ire of senator nelson the debate proceeded as follows mr nelson â€” does the senator in tend to imply that consul mcneely traveling on that ship was unpa triotic and not a good america citizen mr jones â€” i think consul mo neely had better hunted up a nei"n tral ship as a representative of th_t government rather than getting on a belligerent ship mr owen â€” may i ventur te augc-lt i 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